TitleIX is ripe for reform

Or maybe the House could benefit from having an outsider serve as interim House speaker, in order to alleviate suspicions that (for example) some seek to avenge what recently happened to Kevin McCarthy. Donald, a former wrestler, could unify the House with a potential fascination with his electoral resilience and eagerness to keep on keepin' on. Incidentally I think I published the abovementioned brief newsworthy post responsively in one or perhaps two other threads in these forums.

Hopefully the Cornhusker wrestling program can & will survive. Out of pragmatism, though, may I suggest that we consider what to do swiftly in the event of program elimination, and start taking precautions sooner rather than later? 1) Can we avoid what happened to some other universities whereby teams were cut and anger levels were so high that no club teams subsequently emerged? 2) Why not prepare for the possibility that the U. of Nebraska seeks to promptly sell the Cornhuskers' wrestling mats. Why not buy them if and when that happens? A few years ago, the Old Dominion University athletic director managed to get that moniker-displaying shrine sold off very quickly after terminating ODU's wrestling team. That's likely part of why there's no club program for ODU listed here even nowadays, sadly enough: http://www.ncwa.net/teams 3) Meanwhile, why not start creating and sharing independently owned & operated "Nebraska Cornhusker Wrestling" pages on Social Media (and not just on Facebook but also at some alternatives) ahead of time? Here are some alternatives to Zuck's censorship-plagued forums: http://www.seceder.com/internet I suspect that Facebook is more likely to cancel pages if university sponsor$ request as much of Facebook. Incidentally, MeWe says on its page that it is working to make forum owners the owners of the contacts and data that emerge on such pages, even on Facebook. Such ownership can make life more bearable whenever Facebook seeks to cancel one's forum for being uppity & offensive, or otherwise noncompliant. Migrate & survive... Let's see how MeWe's initiative goes. Why not help it along and persuade other forums to sign on, as well, if they haven't already? Facebook's got too much control, but maybe not for long. Sound like a plan? Wrestling enables us to learn how to try to rebound quickly after enduring disappointment. Are the Cornhuskers ready to prove it? Hopefully so.

Elsewhere I've read that the Donald (a former wrestler, as we know) has been invited by some to serve as the interim House speaker, replacing Rep. McCarthy. Reportedly it's legal even though he's not a member of Congress, at least not presently.

MTG would make an interesting House speaker, wouldn't she? BTW, I've read that Donald Trump could legally be the interim House speaker even though he's not a member of Congress. He has received some invitations, too...

There are those who believe that without the Olympics, funding for our sport will dwindle very substantially in many countries (including our own). I think it would help if we could inspire more folks in more U.S. states and also in Latin America to embrace wrestling vigorously as an ongoing Olympics sport. I'm grateful that Stanford helps keep wrestling alive in Mr. Fozzard's Northwest. Without Stanford, Oregon State and Cal. Poly might be significantly more eager to drop wrestling, along with Cal. St. Bakersfield and Cal. Baptist. It's a house of cards, but the region has influence over Latin America. So do New Mexico & neighboring Texas but NCAA D1 wrestling is presently absent from both states, as far as I know.

But what if Congress enacts the change but Biden vetoes it? Has Gaetz thereby lost his control over the motion to vacate threshold? Hopefully he'll not be short-changed like that.

Regarding my initial post in this thread, I'm still trying to figure out where I (allegedly) was not right. We agree to disagree. I'd compare the disagreement to an ideological one between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, but the latter agreed with the former more than he cared to publicly admit. Impressively, the latter even allowed secession to happen. (I attended one of his speeches and enjoyed it.) Numerous new countries emerged because of his relative tolerance, and it seems that wrestling has benefited as a result. I would like to see amateur wrestling survive and thrive post-breakup in what's presently the U.S.A, too. You are welcome to do so, as well. I don't pretend to have all the answers to the challenges that wrestling has ahead. It's not even guaranteed an Olympic presence in 2032...

Venezuelans have reportedly been buying bread with loads of their national currency during recent years. Fortunately for their country, they have petroleum to help them avoid even more malaise. Nevertheless it's reminiscent of the Germans after the first world war. Here's a photo from Germany taken in 1923: The USA's feds are unable to demand nearly as much as they previously could for their monopoly money. But if you don't consider that a loss, that's your right. If you think insolvency isn't a thing for the U.S.A.'s money-printers, that's your right. As for seceding, I guess you don't celebrate July 4th then? Dozens of new countries have emerged, worldwide over the past few decades. As for Texas... http://www.seceder.com/Texas

Surely you can name 'em then, right?

Hopefully endowed wrestling programs haven't banked too naively on the feds' purported long term solvency? The federal gubmint can't even peddle treasury bonds nowadays without enduring growing losses as markets wake up to the ever growing federal debt exposed at: http://www.USDebtClock.org: https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/bonds/treasury-bond-yields-market-selloff-market-crashes-dot-com-bubble-2023-10 Understandably, talk of secession is gaining traction but hopefully breakaway territories will keep (and continue to grow) wrestling at least for the Olympics and for intercollegiate competitions throughout North America: http://www.Seceder.com Meanwhile it would seem that universities and colleges will increasingly need students who can pull their own weight, tuition-wise. After all, the well of student loans for majoring in nonmarketable academic disciplines (such as gender studies and other reverse discrimination pursuits) appears to be increasingly drying up. As for Dept. of Education bureaucrats who interpret & enforce Title IX to try to scare schools away from maintaining or reinstating men's wrestling teams and other sports glorifying rugged individualism for both genders, it would seem that the feds' enforcement officials will increasingly demand lofty penalties and attorneys fees for their "services". Otherwise they won't have as easy of a time financing their lavish lifestyles. Some women may be up for wrestling men who identify as females, but Washington D.C. may increasingly find that schools won't pay such heavy fines. Any predictions for wrestling's future? BTW, hopefully women's wrestling will continue to grow.

Ross Perot won 19% of the vote in 1992. He needed 15% of the popular support to qualify for presidential debate participation that year. In 1996, though, he did not have 15% of the popular support, so he didn't get to debate that year, either. His participation would have been helpful to the analysis, though, and it's our loss that he didn't get to participate. His participation may very well have enabled him to surmount the 15% hurdle. It's a cart-before-the-horse problem.

Can these folks someday open up the presidential debates to third party candidates? They have a free newsletter to which one can subscribe, below, at: https://independentvoterproject.org/work/opening-the-presidential-debates

That reminds me of the fairly new high school football stadiums that keep getting replaced with even newer (and of course expensive) ones, especially in Texas. Elected officials and their allies are enriching campaign donors and other sources of perk$ & benefit$ by mandating the construction of such boondoggles. Perhaps Matt Gaetz really is serious about clamping down on such theft... If so, hopefully voters will renew his contract(s).

Periodically http://www.USTermLimits.org sends messages to its (free) subscribers regarding breakthroughs achieved in particular, individual U.S. states. There are angles to discover and pursue, as with the sport of wrestling. I am glad that fellow wrestlers are taking an interest in this topic. You folks truly inspire me. Please keep at it. And thanks to the Intermat for creating and maintaining these terrific forums.

This is lively and spot on...

The G.O.P. controlled all 3 branches of government in 2001 (for a few years) and later back around 2016 (for a while). I didn't see the national debt decline like I had thought would consequently happened. Since then I've become increasingly intrigued with the topic of secession (http://www.Seceder.com ).

Changes can be made at the state level, at least in some states, regarding the creation of term limits for their states' federal representatives. Many state reps. would like to get rid of the people occupying seats in Washington D.C. that they, themselves, want to occupy. May I suggest that you subscribe to their free newsletter(s)?

Have you interacted with these folks yet? http://www.USTermLimits.org

I know of at least one state that basically doesn't allow omnibus bills. The USA still does, though. Gaetz is right about the need to reform that at the federal level.

The more longstanding members of Congress typically have more seniority & contacts with which to get more "pork" (i.e. gubmint grants & contracts) allocated to their electoral districts. Committee chairpersonships are helpful, as are committee assignments. That's a significant part of why so many folks keep voting unsatisfactory elected officials back in each term. Such voters want some of their (involuntarily extracted) federal tax dollars returned by the feds. If there are term limits enacted across the board, though, there's less disincentive against voting out elected officials who aren't performing as well as their voting constituents would like. Encouragingly enough, Term Limits are making some (but not yet enough) progress: http://www.USTermLimits.org Getting them enacted is like becoming a better wrestler, though. Patience & persistence are needed.

Term limits are advancing: http://www.USTermLimits.org

Rush Limbaugh used to say that the USA's founding fathers designed our government so that it would be hard to change things too much. They didn't want the system to decay back into a tyranny plagued with absolute power. Admittedly this was before a federal income tax existed. Now there's a lotta money chasing folks around in Washington D.C. And much of it is borrowed: http://www.USDebtClock.org At least Bob Good talks about the debt problem, unlike a lot on Capitol Hill.

Today former Virginia state champion & NCAA D1 (Liberty University) wrestler Bob Good shared why he voted as one of the 8 Republicans who recently pursued ousting House speaker Kevin McCarthy: "We are $33 trillion in debt. Our border is being invaded. Family budgets are being crushed by gas prices, housing costs, and Bidenflation. American citizens are being targeted by a weaponized government. I voted to remove the Speaker because we cannot afford to wait and fight these battles next Congress, next year, or even next month. We have to fight for the American people today---and every day." Rep. Good wears his wrestling coach credential with pride even to this day, by the way: https://ballotpedia.org/Bob_Good

Thanks for sharing those observations. It seems worth mentioning that musical chairs-playing head coaches arguably do not seem to sufficiently benefit schools left behind by them. UTC may have been stronger if it had had lasting leadership. Maybe that's why we no longer see certain kinds of coaches head to such schools... Perhaps such schools don't want a coach around for just a few years or less. Alumni seemingly prefer to back a coach who will be around for longer terms. Or you might be on to something in asserting that the higher profile influx of coaches helped such schools more than such coaches' departures hurt. Nevertheless, the U. of Missouri didn't juggle head coaches these past two decades. They're now ranked in the Top 5 at the NCAA D1 level. They even survived being the only wrestling program in their eventual athletic conference (the SEC). But admittedly there's a significant difference between the U. of Missouri and UTC & Edinboro. At least nowadays the growth of the NCWA.net (club league) gives more folks coaching opportunities than perhaps ever before. So does the growth of women's wrestling.

In my Freudian slip, I may have answered my own question. If the Iowa State Cyclones add women's NCAA D1 wrestling, that could generate quite a bit of enthusiasm as the Hawkeyes come after them and vice versa. Any predictions as to which teams will be next to add NCAA D1 women's wrestling?